ArticleInternational journal of epidemiology2020
Food insecurity and the extremes of childhood weight: defining windows of vulnerability.
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- Childhood Food Insecurity Trajectories and Adult Weight and Self-Reported Health.American journal of preventive medicine · 2025Article
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- The Combined Effects of Social Determinants of Health on Childhood Overweight and Obesity.Childhood obesity (Print) · 2024Article
- Time-Varying Associations between Food Insecurity and Infant and Maternal Health Outcomes.The Journal of nutrition · 2022Article
- Food Insecurity and Cardiometabolic Conditions: a Review of Recent Research.Current nutrition reports · 2021Review
- Associations of household food insufficiency with childhood depression and anxiety: a nationwide cross-sectional study in the USA.BMJ open · 2021Article
- Under-five malnutrition among Palestine refugee children living in camps in Jordan: a mixed-methods study.BMJ global health · 2021Article
- The association of household and child food insecurity with overweight/obesity in children and adolescents in an urban setting of Ethiopia.BMC public health · 2021Observational
- Addressing Food Insecurity: Lessons Learned from Co-Locating a Food Pantry with a Federally Qualified Health Center.International journal of integrated careArticle
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backgroundWeight extremes and food insecurity (FIS) represent public-health challenges, yet their associations in childhood remain unclear. We aimed to investigate the longitudinal time-specific relationship between FIS and risk of overweight/obesity and underweight in kindergarten through 8th grade.
methodsIn the prospective Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort (1998-2007) of 6368 children, household FIS was assessed by the validated US Household Food Security Survey Module in kindergarten, 3rd, 5th and 8th grades. Multivariable linear-regression and Poisson-regression models were computed.
resultsCompared with children experiencing food security (FS), children exposed to FIS in 5th grade had 0.19 [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.07-0.30] and 0.17 (0.06-0.27) higher body mass index z-score (BMIZ) in the 5th and 8th grades, respectively, whereas FIS in the 8th grade was associated with a 0.29 (0.19-0.40) higher BMIZ at the same wave, after adjusting for covariates and FIS at earlier waves. Children with FIS vs FS had 27% (relative risk: 1.27, 95% CI: 1.07-1.51), 21% (1.21, 1.08-1.35) and 28% (1.28, 1.07-1.53) higher risk of overweight/obesity in the 3rd, 5th and 8th grades, respectively, adjusting for covariates and FIS at prior wave(s). Children with FIS vs FS in kindergarten had a 2.76-fold (1.22-6.25) higher risk of underweight in the 8th grade.
conclusionsProximal exposure to household FIS was associated with a higher risk of overweight/obesity in the 3rd, 5th and 8th grades. FIS in kindergarten was associated with a risk of underweight in the 8th grade. Thus, FIS coexists in weight extremes during vulnerable early-life windows in the USA, similarly to the global burden of FIS.
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